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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-16

steamers Gilmore and Florence, also two
barges with about 100000 feet for Shepard
& Morse. Saturday night the steamer
Harris brought five boats for Shena, ::
Morse, two for w. g. ID. G. Crane ai.u tN o
for the Shade Roller company at Yer
gennes, each having about 100000 feet
The increased attendance in the Gram
mar grade Of our public schools has neces
STATED the opening of an additional
school in the Gramm r annex building.
Miss Marie VI. Graves has been transferred
from the prncipalship Of the Falls school,
Miss G. T.. johnson has been promoted to
the principalship of the Falls school, and
Miss Minnie Il. Fuller has been appointed
assistant at the Falls school. The teach
er5 in Adams intermediate are now
Principal, Minnie f. Baldwin ; first as
sistant, Cora 3. Drew second assistant,
Mildred Cleveland
AS young rustic stood looking out of one
of the Floral hall windows yesterday run
away horse made its appearance toward
the west end of Howard park and came
tearing down the track. The sight great
ly amused him SO that his laughter was
heard even above the din created by the
piano tuner. Suddenly, however II ser
ous idea seemed to strike him, his laugh
! ter eased, his lower jaw dropped and af-
ter a little he drawled ont 81 swow to
gosh if that isn't my rig" Before he could
reach the track, however. the buggy had
been completely demorallzed and the sad
young man is undoubtedly thinking how
| fortunate it was that lie had his laugh be
/ fore hand.
Mr.. +. G. Fletcher, who recently g
turned from visit to Sioux City
Iowa, brought with him two of the pixies
| procured by John Brown to arm the ne
! groes in his famous raid. John Brown haC
a thousand of these made in Connecticut
and stored them at Harpers Ferry, where
they were taken by the United States
| troops and it would seem were subse
quently shipped to the frontier. They
have been lying in a government store
house at Sioux City, and were recently
sold with other useless army material
Mr.. Fletcher obtained a couple of then
from his brother, who is /, resident o
Sioux City, and values them highly "a,
relics of the famous episode which pre-
coded and led up TO the civil war Tn,
blades of these pixies are long and slende
like Il bayonet, and in hand to hand fight
ing would make formidable weapon. Mr.
Fletcher also brought home from Iowa
remarkably fine Indian war club, an,
other Indian accoutrements. These an,
the pixies may be seen in Fletcher s
Boynton's windows on Church street
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A Monumental Success.

Visitors to the State fair this year can
but miss the display of monumental work
that has in many of the past years been
such prominent feature OF the exhibition.
Mr.. j. w. Goodell found himself so much
driven with pressing orders that he was
unable to spare the time required to make
an exhibit this season. He mas, however,
AT his Office, PSI Pine street, this city, a
number of fine Monuments that range in
price from $40 to 5000, and photographs of
work OF much larger range in prices that
will well repay a visit to his warerooms.
where he will be pleased TO show his work
and variety of designs that are not sur
passed by any dealer III the country. The
reputation of this house Is such that pur-
chascrs can leave their orders with con
iidence that they will be executed to their
tull satisfaction.
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80 to 9 cents per pound pork, TO 81 G. ptn
per pound; veal. to : cents per pound, lag1
weight; hay, IS to $40 per ton.
ST. ALBANs, Sept. II.
Attendance good, receipts fair. market ao-
tive and showing iirmcr, though no material
change is uut3d in nat weeks quotat b. nus
General ptio. tor good butter Is to ~ cents,
selections p u - cents and some few dairisq
little higher. LsEs Ii cents for shipping
RICHMOND, Seps. IL.
The butter market to-day Sales of fair tc
GOOD at Is TO Il cents; cholccat ~ tp2J cents
cctons at Il to % cents; chccs' factory.
10 to II cents; dairy, to 10; eggs, Is TO a.
cents per dozen potatoes, - cent. per bus aet.
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he St. Albans Nine to Disbaud.

The game Saturday with the GOrdons Of
Montreal will close the professional base
ball season for Vermont and the st. Al
bans team will be paid OH and diSOanded.
This was decided at Il meeting of the st.
Adams assoc tlon directors Tuesday
evening and WAS made ntce soTy for the
very good reasCr that here Is nothing left
for the champions Of the Northeastern
league 10 play with The original plan
was to close the season Oct |, but one by
one the clubs dropped our. AS long as
Rutland remained the fight for the pen
paht was 10 90 On. Bat one morning sud
denly Rutland pulled ont and ak St, A /
tie Malone. In the face Of all this
the management hoped to keep the. ball
rolling through September by importing
the LOwells and other crack clubs of the
| New England league. Manager Hunt
has laborel bard to bring this scheme
about, but could not do SO without large
outlay when, III connection with the more
| or less rainy weather we are sure TO have
| this month made the risks too great. The
| st. Adams team is composed of as nice a
| lot of ball players : one oftt n meets, and
aside from ball playing the boys have
made hosts Of friends in town. They are
| 4 good natured, gent lemanly, steady com
| pany OF youLg men, and when it comes Ia
| playing ball-Eeil, they are there, rs the
score books slow. IL is pretty certain
that there viii be n league next season
composed of St. Adams, Montreal, OF
tawa, Ogdensburgh and il is to be hoped
Burlington.
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Post Chamberlin of st. job nsbury has
engaged Charles y Thomas of Boston to
deliver his popular lecture. "Here and
there in the civil war;" az Music nail, Oh
Friday evening of next week. sept. 10th.
The Orleans County Veterans assocla-
ton opened their annual reunion at Bar
ton yesterday, and it will close to-day.
Post Chamberln and the Relief Corps of
St. Johnspury visited the post at Lunen-
! burgh Tuesday evening. There were
speeches by II. c. Bates, Esq, DR.. Bul-
lard, Marshall Montgomery, ED, and
others and the exercises closed with Il
banquet.
The following pensions have been
granted to Nermontprs this week: Mar
tin V. NJ. Davis, Chelsea; George NJ.
Bows, Peacham Michael Sullivan, de-
ceased, Bellows Falls; Henry A. Moore
Passumpsic; Gideon Wood, North Cam
bridge; Samuel w. Dix, Montgomery
Centre; Albert 4. Burke, MorrisVile
samuel II. X. Emery, Bartonville; Hor
Pee l.. Poverty, Rutlard; Paul Bausky
Montgomery Centre; Joseph Pacu, Yer
gcnnes; Alfred a. Slimpkins, Enosbur0h
Centre; A. w. Braley. Daubury; James
q. Twss, Chanderville George S. Blk
by, Epson; Samuel b Webster Am
h,r,t; Il. H. Place, Gilmanton Iron
works Aleda, widow of Merrill y. Ken
dan. Perkinsville Increase, John &. Blay
STAFFORD reissue, John Harber 0nsane)
! faiT,aX
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watertown Union live stock Markets.

Cattle MarEot-The market is quoted
dull.
Market Beef-extra. 50d6 49, first quality,
0OGl6 2j: second quality, 5OO4o 90; third
quality, 81 cool 80.
Cattle-Receipts of 1895 head.
Cattle-Storc Cattle-Worklng oxen, pen
palr, S90GDl6l. Farrow cows Sl5D3O. FANCY
COWS S5OItsO. Mich cows aud calves, S2iG4s
Yearlings SS50DSlS. Two-ycarS-old, SltD2S
Three, S240i0
Swine-Receipts of 26,ls4.
Swine-Northern dressed hogs, ~ u D.
Western fat, live 5l646 n n.
Sheep and lamhs-Reccipts OF $3.50.
Shg ep and Lambs-ln lots Al !d~y3 - extra
at UDfli H.
veal Calves ut @la1G.
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CHICAGO, sept. II.

JHICAGO, NcpJ. II.
FL"vA-- was firm; for choice bakers
brands ard patents winters SOW aud easl-
err .,irt"r at : rs 81; Northtr1 VIII
ter ct 3 1ii3i n; Michigan az 6nGtt u
ch ict to fancy dlnrps"t. pa cuts ut 42iQLi -
wheat patents at 4UUa42j; Minnesota bakers
n ,Ici:s al }GnTt321. WHEAT quiet. NO.
spring at 6..bMG9; No. > rcd AT II. CORN
firm 80. :. at 42js. OATS -aoud trade. No
a. So. RYE-No. at ijla. BAt;LEY-NO
nj t. .
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OUR HAVERSACIx.
Facts aud Figures of the Grand Army Ma
tionnl Meetings and Membership.

tionnl Meetings and Membership.
The newt annual encamnment of the
Grand Amy of the Renuhlic nj 81. Iouis
Will be the 3lst held since The birth of the
ORGANIZATION. The first most was urpani.
n d in Decatur H.. Anril & 1SGG The
first national erclmpmeut was held AT
indianapolis in November, 1866, Il Gen
eVal -. n. Hurlout was mere CHOSEN the
tin",I Observation-Disclosures ,,nI hold ~ pbiIadni-
phia in January, 1865. General John A.
Logan was elected communicative chief,
ana Few months later slsnaliHed the De
So ~ vi nf7 w. ,,i"' IT,,
his tamnus orInrs 1irecting mo ohsarv,
.a,ca ~ NJ, 90 ne Ni,,,,'',,;; d. M
t anne VI va! % as -it.iu! '"l u"H nc
tnllu ndu!oHa, ehcd,uVlutiu was Heih AT
Clncinhatl, WheFe Geh RAJ Logan was re-
elected commander in chief and General
Ltcius Fairchild and General j, Il. UtW-
lev rreuectlvrly senior and iunior vice
r,,,, n,,ndar in obiaf trha r,i,rth ,rrnol
,.' u ~ w, y iNt 81 " - 80
'"piHeH', was "u w dSulhs to'i' ulio III IL
Il. npslOn. the pJu aV tieNeidntl Tue ih
AZ New haven, the SIN at HARRISBURG,
the 9th at Chicago, the 10th at Phjladel-
Duia, the 18th at Providence. the 18th at
SuriurGelI Nn.s tho 1Qth of lhanv
10 ~ ~ n'~t,, -, tsth AZ iadi',5
po'iS, tne 10. dl bd!tlHofS, NhSFe ny the
way, Mr.. Cleveland predecessor, preSl
Arthur, reviewed the process sion, going
| from Washing GA for the purpose the
! l1th at Denver the lSih ut MINNEAPOLIS
| ti.o 30 f. 49, d., .in,l 81 ,bo oOtb' 1nyt
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Butter market steady nc 10 to 20 cents per
pound selections, 81 cents per pound some
extras, - cents per pound; eggs, Mt u cents
per dozen; fowls, 10 TO T. cents per pound ,
chickens II TO II cents per pound; honey. Il
to 10 cents per pound; beans 500 to Sl'5O per
hushol; potatoes, 80 cents per bushel; beef
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Vermont Produce Market.

RUTLAND, Sept ID.
Apples, per bushel, 5OI65; butter, per
pound, 100 20 small package, 2@023; eggs
per dozen 20; green corn per dozen, 3; pears
per bushel, 75C6Sl 90; plums, per bushel' S@'
potatoes, per bushe 5jG6O; turnlps' per
bushel 10
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MARRIED.

ALLEN -MUNGER.-At Colchester. sept. y
by Rev. joseph Freeman, HcmaE \. Allen tt
ElViru ". Munger
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DIED.

FIELp-In this city, sept -. KITE, only
daughter OF the late George W, ana Frances
Field, aud granddau ghter of William II and
Marcia NJ. Thomas, aged years.
SHAw.-In this city, Sept. 49, 1885,, of g1eu~
mOuia, Mrs. Betsy Shaw, wife of james L..
SHAW aged Is years, months and Is days.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
GENERAL.

Nebraska sustained loss of 81
900, 600 from Texas cattle fever last
year
An electric kettle is recent in
vention of German. Water will boil
in ii in fifteen minutes.
In the pincy woods of Georgia t
hunting party recently captured ad"er.
a large gray fox, and large turkey
cock.
A Long Island racc-horso got loose
at night, went out to a racr-track, and
ran two half-milc heats for the fun oi
the thing and then returned 10 the
stable to be rubbed down.
-Mr-. David Geyer, of Richmond,
Ind, took her horse and buggy and in
lustriouSly brought in voters to the
polls, thereby electing her husband
councilman by five votes.
Young NJ. Sissy Ondulging in a
light luneheo )-''Ah, waiter, YOU may
bring me a Schwe,zsr cheese sandwich.
with no butter. please, and a trifle Of
mustard; and, waiter, let the cheese be
fresh and thinr' Waiter (deferen-
tially)-"Yes, sir; would you like the
holes cut out of it?'-Puch.
A Tombstone man from the Pata-
gonian mountains, Arizona. says the
fire has laid bare large tracts of coun-
try heretofore covered with brush and
vegetation, and that it now presents
opportunities for prospecting that have
never before been accessible on account
of being covered with dense forests.
One of the best-dressed young men
in Louisville recently was an assistant
book-keeper in a bank who astonished
society with his attire. Whom he sud
denly departed to visit friend in
Texas. it was found that he owed be-
tween 81, 900 and 81, 600 for his clothes.
one shoeiaakcr claiming an amount OF
$3.50.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
ADDITIONAL DISPATCHES

TEE HIH temperature and lar t per
centa-" Of sunshine with the deficient
rainfall, have tended to materially reduce
the percentage OF the condition of all
growing crops in Tennessee.
Mr.. LEWIS H. BLAIR, of Richmond, Va,
has been asked to resign from municipal
office on the ground that, because he
advocated mixed schools in a series of
newspaper articles, he was thought to
have radically misrepresented the people
who elected him.
EX-UNITED STATES SENATOR SARGEANT
died at San Francisco on the 18th.
THE war department has received a
telegram from the Governor of Colorado,
announcing the uprising of the White river
Utes near Meeker, Colorado, and asking
the assistance of the United States troops
in suppressing il.
One new case OF yellow fever was re-
ported at Key West, Fla, on the 18th and
no deaths. All OF the sick are apparently
out Of danger, and the unacclimated adults
who were attacked during the week ex-
hbited very light cases, showing COM
pete modification of the disc Sc.
L
the Central aud Union Pacific roads have
been outrageously plundered by the di-
rectors of these roads out of S75,O0O,OO0
THE convicted Chicago boodlers are io
high spirits over an alleged discovery by
their lawyers that according to precedent
established in the supreme court their trial
was technically informal, and therefore
void.
AN application for extradition papers
for the return of the bOOdler McGarigle
are in process Of preparation. The docu-
ment will be very voluminous. 1t will bt
sent to tie Governor Of Illinois and by
him to the President.
SAM JONES preached to an audience of
$4,000 persons at Round Lake, n. ", on
the l4th.
U. S. SENATOR RIDDLEBERGER, who was
sentenced at Woodstock, Va, on the 18th h,
to pay fine of S25 and be imprisoned for
five days for contempt of court, was re-
leased from Jail the following night by a
mob.
A wELL-KNowN drummer named Gregory
died ON the train between Forrest City and
Mariana, Ark, on the 14th, of congestio N
of the bowels.
HENRY W. GRADY says the Democrat s
should not nominate Southern man for
the Vice Presidency IN 1885,
THE body of colored girl, horribly mu-
tilated, was found in the woods near
Franklin, La. Her stepfather, Dan Has,
kins, was arrested on suspicion of being
her murderer. He confessed and asked to
be hanged. The citizens thought his re-
quest reasonable and granted it.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
OBEDIENCE IN CHILDHOOD.

-, ,,..,.- 81, ,,.-o,,, g., ,.,,r,,,,rd Ra,hsr
man ,on.nIt Their children.
No doubt the moral sentiment of
PauTs are stretched parental authority
IN an extreme. AMI we need not hcsi-
tate 70 admit that the Christian idea Of
a fathers power and chld's obe-
dicucc has been much sDftcncd by
Christianity. buf the softening has
come from the Greater prominence
oivop tn Ioyr rather than from tho
limitation rivcn ~ obedience.
Our present domestic life sooms to
mo TO stand -orrlv in need If Plul's
;piriu.iiou. Olc can not but see that
there j. orcaf laxitv in thi, matter in
manr Christian housebold- in reaction
perhaps from the too great severity Of
past times. Many causes lead 10
this unwhole,omc relaxation OF
parental authority. In our great
cities. especially among the COM
mrrcial classes. children are gem
eralIv better educated than their faith
crs and mothers: know less Of carly
strurpIcs. and one often secs sense
of inferioritv making parent hesitate
to command ns well rs a misplaced
tenderness making him hesitate to for
bid. A very misplaced and cruel ten
derness il is to say "would ypu lilSe?'
when he ought to say Il wi~h.' j is
nnkiuJ to Law on younr shoulders '1he
s+eight of too much liberty,n and to in
troducc trrinr hearts too soon to the
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned by Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND po1Ir,c..

Rev. J. NJ Maori, a jathohc priest who
cam" rom ireland TO the Brooklyn diocese
last December died the other day Of starva
tion. He suffered from dementia.
EMPEROR WILLIAM was unable to receive
and bid farewell to his friends, on the occa-
sion Of his departure from Hastcin. owing
to his having lamed himself bV etrIk'n6 h'S
hin against table wti'o ,tnoIing to pick
up rafel
iHE New York Press Club rendered re-
ception to Henry Wattcrson on the 10th.
JonN CLAY, the only remaining son of
henry Clay, died at Lexington, KY, on
the 10th, aged sixty-sevcn.
A MEETING Of the Cabinet was held at the
White House on the 1lth. The financial
situation and the Canadian fisheries were
tho principal subjects Of HIsCrssiJu
Z. Dr. ZEN, cf cleveland, O., mas been
elected president of the International
Photographers Association.
The Civil Service Commission has rem
dered a decision generating Philadelphia
officials from the charges of fraud in civil
service examinations
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
Reecher,s Possible Successor.

New YORK, Aug. 2.-The HeralPs
Washington special says: An Indianapo-
lis gentleman, who reached the city last
night, says that it is not impossible that
Rev. Myron Reed, of Denver, may be Sc
Iected by the congregation of Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn, as the successor of the
late Mr.. Beecher. Mr.. Reed formerly
preached at indianapolis. He is fifty
years of age and quite as liberal in his
views as the late pastor of Plymouth. He
was nominated to Congress by the Col
orado Democrats last year, and, owing to
his personal popularity, nearly succeeded
in winning victory, Notwithstanding
the State II Republican.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

EX-GOVERNOR MOSES, late of South
Carolina, and who has been imprisoned
in Massachusetts for fraud, has written
book on reform in prisons. In it he
alludes to the opium habit, to which in
former years he was slave. but which
he is now free from, and relates his
own prison experiences in order, as he
says, 'that | might add my individual
efforts to those which others are max
ing toward explaining the subject of
prison REFORM
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

SERGEANT MASON, made famous for
having shot at Guiteau during his trial
for the murder of President Garfield,
and who was confined in the Albany
Pcnitcntiary for some time has become
a prosperous and very quiet farmer in
Orange County, Virginia. He with
Betty and several babies, are reported
to be comfortable in all respects
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

THE death is reported of a French
grazier named Pomarede from eating
IA steak taken from an OK belonging to
him which had died of blood poison
ing from the sting of venomouS fly.
Pomarede had II grass farm at FOurque,
near La Selve. He died six hours after
having eaten the steak. DecOmposi-
ton was so rapid that the mayor of his
commune judged well to authorize his
burial within the time prescribed by
law
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

a british subject was arrested in
Odessa. Russia. recently for sitting on
the same seat in a public tram car as
tn" Governor of the city, whom he did
not know. He was subsequently re-
leased, but was threatened with ex-
pulSion. The Governor publicly made
some offensive remarks respecting
EnGliShmcIi.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

The other night 4 woman named
Brennan, living in Des Moines, Iowa.
went to empty some boiling water from
a kettle. Her little child, about three
years old, was under the porch, of
which the mother was ignorant. Just
as she threw the water the child ran
out, and the scalded fluid went all over
it. The little ones condition was a
pitiful sight. Medical assistance was
summoned, but the child died.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

FoR the angler who wishes to let his
line float gently with the stream with
out the trouble of watching il, little
electrical arrangement has been de-
vi~"d whereby pull upon the line
"ln-rS the circuit and rings a bell
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

THERE are one hundred and forty
one Senators and Representatives
elected to the Fiftieth Congress who
were not in the Forty-ninth. About
twenty of these have served in previous
Congresses. Shivply, of Indiana, is
the youngest member, and was born in
March. 1891. General Vandever, of
California, is the oldest member. hav-
inc passed three score and ten.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

THE Lord Mayor of London recently
gave a banquet to the members of the
Conference on the Laws of Nations.
Among the guests were Minister
Phelps. Hon. David Dudley Field. Hon.
Simon Cameron. Consul General Wal
ler, United States Senator Hawley.
Murat HalStcad. of the Cincinnati Conn
mcrcjal- Ga:cttt, and Hon. Daniel
DOuUhcrty.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

lr has been estimated that fully
Sev"niy-tivr thousand square miles of
farming territory in the Northwest
have been ruined, as far as this sea-
sons crops are concerned, by the
drought.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

JvLIrs CHAMBERs. well known in
Philadclphie journalism, has become
The editor of GaiignaniS Messenger, of
Paris, which James Gordon Bennett
has bOurht.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

AT a meeting of officials of the
Union Pacific road at Denver Col, re-
Gently, General Traffic Manager
Thomas l.. Kimball was appointed
second Vice president
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

MR. MARCUS {. STEARNs is the sole
survivor of Chicago's original i}daiti Of
Trade. He il 40" stvcnty-two years
old, rr',r 'irh, and has long been out
oF business.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

The belle of Cape May this season is
Miss Janet Cameron, of Harrisburg,
Pa. Miss Cameron is the favuri,c
granddaughter of the venerable Simon
Cameron
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

DURING the Last f'cai year $24, $685.
6l5 of silver bullion were purchased
10" coinage, while 30, 800, ,S31 silver dol
lars were coined.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

Wool dealers and sheep growers of
Oregon have entered protest before the
Commerce Commission against the
Pacific railways pool rates.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18

In letter to the Paris Figure Mime.
FurSch-Madi places her losses with the
American and the National Opera Com
panicS at lj6, 900 francs.
The Brookhaven leader., 1887-08-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

a VELoCIrEDE service lately organ
lzed Is proving highly satisfactory to
the German army.